Good evening. Ive been lurking and searching here for a little while to see if I can get some more info on a couple of quotes I recently received. I am looking for 10 replacement windows and have had 2 quotes. All 10 windows are under 100 united inches.

The first one was for Slocomb Pro-Tech 177 double hung window, which I have not really seen a good review on. The guy was only in my house for 23 minutes. i think he was throwing a number out to me once he found out i was in sales and wouldnt answer his cheesy sales questions. 10 windows, $3855 installed

The second quote is from a Sunrise dealer. He came by, was very nice and knowledgeable, and not at all pushy. he was here for about an hour and a half, two hours max. his quote was for the Sunrise Sunrise double-hung with ultra U Plus glass. 10 windows installed for $5250.

I'm not one to go with the cheapest bidder but I'm also not one to go with the first quote without negotiating either. I want the sunrise, so what would be a good price?

I was concerned about loss of solar heat gain during the winter here in Colorado when I went with triple pane Sunrise windows on our south facing windows. These have two panes of Ultra-U plus glass. However, when I talked with an energy consultant here who was very knowledgeable about solar heat gain, she said my house really wasn't designed for solar heat gain and while some rooms may benefit with a higher SHGC, our energy bills were not likely to be lower in winter. The amount of glass area relative to the house walls wasn't large enough to make much of a difference she said. She said we were better off with windows that would help keep heat in during the winter rather then try to gain solar heat with higher SHGC windows (and we'd benefit more during the summer as well).

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